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A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.Thu, 08 Dec 2016 23:21:09 +0000en-UShourly1A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active MagazinecleanKKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazinekkfi901fm@gmail.comkkfi901fm@gmail.com (KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazine)Radio Active Magazine » Podcast Categories » Podcast – Radio Active Magazinehttp://www.kkfi.org/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/logo-radio-active-magazine-1400x1400-873.pnghttp://www.kkfi.org
A locally produced program where activist groups in the Kansas City area present interviews, commentary, editorials, and other thought provoking content on a weekly basis.Kansas City, MO USAWeeklyHelping disadvantaged youth in public schoolshttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/helping-disadvantaged-youth-public-schools/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/helping-disadvantaged-youth-public-schools/#commentsWed, 30 Nov 2016 01:00:41 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=69520Jeff Shafer and two Americorp volunteers join host Craig Lubow to discuss the work of City Year in the KCMO public schools. City Year utilizes Americorp volunteers to help mentor and tutor youth in five KCMO schools. Students that receive …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/helping-disadvantaged-youth-public-schools/feed/0Jeff Shafer and two Americorp volunteers join host Craig Lubow to discuss the work of City Year in the KCMO public schools. City Year utilizes Americorp volunteers to help mentor and tutor youth in five KCMO schools.Jeff Shafer and two Americorp volunteers join host Craig Lubow to discuss the work of City Year in the KCMO public schools. City Year utilizes Americorp volunteers to help mentor and tutor youth in five KCMO schools. Students that receive the services from City Year have a significant increase in their graduation rates from High School.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean31:15Money and Politicshttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/money-and-politics/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/money-and-politics/#commentsTue, 29 Nov 2016 04:46:27 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=69485Tom Huffman interviews Mike Dean about American Promise and Spencer Graves about Represent.Us. AmericanPromise.net is working with Move to Amend and Wolf PAC to pass local initiatives supporting a constitutional amendment to declare that corporations are not people, and money …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/money-and-politics/feed/0Tom Huffman interviews Mike Dean about American Promise and Spencer Graves about Represent.Us. AmericanPromise.net is working with Move to Amend and Wolf PAC to pass local initiatives supporting a constitutional amendment to declare that corporations ...Tom Huffman interviews Mike Dean about <a href="http://www.americanpromise.net/">American Promise</a> and Spencer Graves about <a href="https://represent.us/">Represent.Us</a>. AmericanPromise.net is working with <a href="https://movetoamend.org/">Move to Amend</a> and <a href="http://www.wolf-pac.com/">Wolf PAC</a> to pass local initiatives supporting a constitutional amendment to declare that corporations are not people, and money is not speech. Represent.Us is organizing local initiatives to pass the American Anti-Corruption Act, which is a collection of measures to stop political bribery by overhauling lobbying and ethics laws, end secret money by dramatically increasing transparency, and give every voter a voice by creating citizen-funded elections. The measures in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Anti-Corruption_Act">American Anti-Corruption Act</a> have so far been deemed constitutional and would be useful whether or not a constitutional amendment overturned the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC">Citizens United decision of the US Supreme Court</a>. Represent.Us works to bring conservatives and progressives together to pass these initiatives. Represent.Us groups in eight states succeeded in getting anti-corruption measures passed on Nov. 8. This included the first state-wide measure, in South Dakota plus local measures in CA, IL, OR, ME, MD, MO, and RI. In addition, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_59_(2016)">California voters approved a measure, "Prop 59"</a> to support overturning Citizens United.
The American Anti-Corruption Act was initially drafted in 2011 by Republican Trevor Potter, who was nominated as head of the Federal Election Commission under Democratic President Clinton. The drafting process included consultations with dozens of strategists, democracy reform leaders and constitutional attorneys from across the political spectrum. Potter also supports American Promise.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean29:57Public Integrity and Vote Fraud vs. Voter Suppressionhttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/public-integrity-vote-fraud-vs-voter-suppression/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/public-integrity-vote-fraud-vs-voter-suppression/#commentsThu, 27 Oct 2016 10:21:15 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=68362Host Spencer Graves will discuss what we know of the positions of the political parties in the Kansas City area on public integrity and the question of vote fraud vs. voter suppression. Kansas got an F and Missouri a D- …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/public-integrity-vote-fraud-vs-voter-suppression/feed/0Host Spencer Graves will discuss what we know of the positions of the political parties in the Kansas City area on public integrity and the question of vote fraud vs. voter suppression. Kansas got an F and Missouri a D- in the 2015 state integrity inve...Host Spencer Graves will discuss what we know of the positions of the political parties in the Kansas City area on public integrity and the question of vote fraud vs. voter suppression. <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/09/18397/kansas-gets-f-grade-2015-state-integrity-investigation" target="_blank">Kansas got an F</a> and <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2015/11/09/18442/missouri-gets-d-grade-2015-state-integrity-investigation">Missouri a D-</a> in the 2015 state integrity investigations initiated by the Center for Public Integrity. Graves asked all the political parties with offices in the 6-county primary KKFI listening area to comment on these issues as well as candidates who appeared at "Meet and Greet" events sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Johnson County and the candidates for Governor and Secretary of State of Missouri. He will discuss what he knows about this. The Republican National Committee has been under a Consent Decree since 1982 to cease and desist from attempts in 1981 to remove people living in predominantly minority communities from voter rolls. This consent decree has been renewed several times and is still in effect because of new violations. This practice may have cost Al Gore the presidency in the 2000 US presidential election, because African-Americans accounted for 88% of people removed from the lists of registered voters but were only about 11% of Florida's voters.
This program included segments from an interview with <a href="http://v.web.umkc.edu/vonnahmeg/" target="_blank">Greg Vonnahme, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.</a>
Public Integrity
The methodology for these state integrity investigations was based on consulting almost a hundred organizations and individuals working in governmental reform. They developed a list of 245 different indicators in 13 categories.[1] They then hired investigative journalists in each of the 50 states to develop answers, assign scores and document sources for each of the 245 questions. You can find the answers to each of the 245 questions for each of the 50 states on the web. A separate page for each state gives a summary of the scores in each of the 13 categories. If you click on a category, you can drill down to the detailed answers for each of the 245 questions. For more on this, visit their web site or listen to the interview we did August 23rd here on RadioActive Magazine with Erin Richey, who did the Missouri Integrity Investigation; that podcast is available on our web site.
Public integrity is, I believe, undervalued by our mainstream commercial media, who could lose advertising if they reported too aggressively on the favors that major advertisers get from government.
Every media organization in the world sells changes in the behaviors of their audience to their funders. Commercial media outlets rarely bite the hands that feed them.
Survey of Parties and Candidates
To prepare for today’s show, I sent emails in late September to all the county parties in the 6-county primary KKFI listening area plus all the candidates for Missouri Governor and Secretary of State for whom I could find contact information. I asked the parties to forward that email to their candidates for state office. I also attended “Meet and Greet” events and extended similar invitations to candidates who presented there.
I asked for their thoughts on the 2015 State Integrity investigations and their view on the vote fraud vs. voter suppression issue. In Missouri I also asked for their position on Missouri Constitutional Amendment 6, regarding a Missouri Voter ID Requirement. The “vote fraud vs. voter suppression” issue and Missouri Constitutional Amendment 6 was the subject of the September 27th episode of RadioActive Magazine.
Vote Fraud
Conservatives claim there is a major problem with vote fraud in the U.S.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean60:00What Starts in the Streets, We Must Finish in the Voting Boothhttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/what-starts-in-the-streets-we-must-finish-in-the-voting-booth/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/what-starts-in-the-streets-we-must-finish-in-the-voting-booth/#commentsWed, 26 Oct 2016 18:40:44 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=68341Errol Louis: “What Starts in the Streets, We Must Finish in the Voting Booth” Award-winning journalist Errol Louis spoke at the annual banquet of the Johnson County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/what-starts-in-the-streets-we-must-finish-in-the-voting-booth/feed/0Errol Louis: “What Starts in the Streets, We Must Finish in the Voting Booth” - Award-winning journalist Errol Louis spoke at the annual banquet of the Johnson County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Errol Louis: “What Starts in the Streets, We Must Finish in the Voting Booth”
Award-winning journalist Errol Louis spoke at the annual banquet of the Johnson County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He said, “What starts in the streets, we must finish in the voting booth.”
He gave 4 examples:
Chicago, IL: On October 20, 2014 in Chicago, IL, Laquan McDonald was shot by Chicago Police Officer Jason Van Dyke. Cook County prosecutor Anita Alvarez eventually yielded to community pressure and prosecuted Van Dyke but failed to get a conviction. On March 15, 2016, she lost the Democratic Primary Election for Cook County State's Attorney to Assistant State's Attorney Kim Foxx -- 29 to 58 percent.
Cleveland, OH: On November 23, 2014, 12-year old Tamir Rice was playing with a toy pistol when Police Officer Timothy Loehmann killed him. Under pressure from the community Cuyahoga County prosecutor Tim McGinty eventually brought the case to a grand jury, which failed to find probable cause to prosecute Loehmann. McGinty also lost a primary March 15, 2016 to Michael O'Malley.
Jacksonville, FL: On February 26, 2012, George Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Martin. State's attorney Angela Corey failed to convict Zimmerman and lost her primary re-election bit on August 30, 2016 to Republican challenger and former Nassau County prosecutor Melissa Nelson, who received almost twice as many votes as Corey.
Brooklyn, NY: In 2013 challenger Ken Thompson beat incumbent DA Charles Hynes with three quarters of the vote.[1] Hynes had served as DA for 23 years, but was unseated after a string of scandals including “50 Possibly Troubled Cases”.[2] This included Jonathan Fleming, whose conviction was obtained by concealing from the jury a receipt showing the Fleming had been in Florida five hours before a murder in Brooklyn and could therefore not possibly have committed the crime.[3] Hynes did not prosecute that case but staunchly defended to attorney who did.[2]
Louis concluded, “Like never before our lives do matter, and our votes do count.”
This talk was recorded Saturday, Oct. 15, 2016 at the annual banquet of the NAACP of Johnson County, KS.
NOTES:
[1] Will Bredderman, “Challenger crushes incumbent in DA race — for the second time”, Brooklyn News, Nov. 6, 2013 (http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/36/45/all-election-hynes-thompson-2013-11-08-bk_36_45.html).
[2] Joaquin Sapien, “Charles Hynes, Scandal-Plagued Brooklyn District Attorney, Faces Verdict At The Polls”, Huffington Post, 2013-09-06 (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/06/charles-hynes-brooklyn-district-attorney-election_n_3881395.html).
[3] Stephanie Clifford, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/nyregion/brooklyn-wrongful-conviction-case-settled.html">“New York City Settles Wrongful Conviction Case in Brooklyn for $6.25 Million”, New York Times, June 23, 2015</a> (accessed 2016-10-24).
Copyright 2016 under the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License</a>.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean28:51War and Peace in the Mideast: Senate Race, Peaceworks and American Friends Service Committeehttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/war-peace-mideast-senate-race-peaceworks-american-friends-service-committee/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/war-peace-mideast-senate-race-peaceworks-american-friends-service-committee/#commentsTue, 18 Oct 2016 20:43:20 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=68115What are the positions of US Senate candidates in Kansas and Missouri on effective responses to the Islamic State, also called ISIS? In Kansas Democrat Patrick Wiesner and Libertarian Robert Garrard are hoping to replace Republican incumbent Jerry Moran. In …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/war-peace-mideast-senate-race-peaceworks-american-friends-service-committee/feed/0What are the positions of US Senate candidates in Kansas and Missouri on effective responses to the Islamic State, also called ISIS? In Kansas Democrat Patrick Wiesner and Libertarian Robert Garrard are hoping to replace Republican incumbent Jerry Mor...What are the positions of US Senate candidates in Kansas and Missouri on effective responses to the Islamic State, also called ISIS? In Kansas Democrat Patrick Wiesner and Libertarian Robert Garrard are hoping to replace Republican incumbent Jerry Moran. In Missouri Democrat Jason Kander, Libertarian Jonathan Dine, and Constitution Party candidate Fred Ryman are running to replace Republican incumbent Roy Blunt, Host Spencer Graves will discuss what we know about these candidates' positions and how that relates to research on what is honestly effective for the long term with Mary Hladky and Dave Pack, who serve on the Board of PeaceWorks Kansas City (<a href="http://www.peaceworkskc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">www.peaceworkskc.org</a>) and the Program Committee of Kansas City office of the American Friends Service Committee. (Available research on "Effective defense and ISIL" is summarized on Wikiversity at "<a href="https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Effective_defense_and_ISIL" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Effective_defense_and_ISIL</a>".)KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean30:56New Season at the Unicornhttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/new-season-at-the-unicorn/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/new-season-at-the-unicorn/#commentsFri, 14 Oct 2016 06:20:05 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=67966Cynthia Levin, Artistic Director at Unicorn Theatre, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the history of the Unicorn Theatre, Cynthia’s history at the Unicorn, her favorite plays, and the current season.

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/new-season-at-the-unicorn/feed/0Cynthia Levin, Artistic Director at Unicorn Theatre, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the history of the Unicorn Theatre, Cynthia's history at the Unicorn, her favorite plays, and the current season.Cynthia Levin, Artistic Director at Unicorn Theatre, joins host Craig Lubow to talk about the history of the Unicorn Theatre, Cynthia's history at the Unicorn, her favorite plays, and the current season.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean18:38“An Act of Love”http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/an-act-of-love/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/an-act-of-love/#commentsThu, 29 Sep 2016 08:26:42 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=67509Host Craig Lubow will have a panel that will discuss the internal conflict within various churches on performing gay weddings and some of the church trials held to determine what happens to ministers that perform gay weddings in defiance of …

]]>http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/an-act-of-love/feed/0Host Craig Lubow will have a panel that will discuss the internal conflict within various churches on performing gay weddings and some of the church trials held to determine what happens to ministers that perform gay weddings in defiance of official ch...Host Craig Lubow will have a panel that will discuss the internal conflict within various churches on performing gay weddings and some of the church trials held to determine what happens to ministers that perform gay weddings in defiance of official church policy. We will also discuss the emerging tolerance of gay marriage in some churches.KKFI 90.1 FM / Radio Active Magazineclean30:28Kansas and Missouri: Epicenter for Voter Suppressionhttp://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/kansas-and-missouri-epicenter-for-voter-suppression/
http://www.kkfi.org/program-episodes/kansas-and-missouri-epicenter-for-voter-suppression/#commentsMon, 26 Sep 2016 02:43:53 +0000http://www.kkfi.org/?post_type=program-episodes&p=67399Missouri Representative Judy Morgan (Dist 24) and Dr Micah Kubic, Executive Director, Kansas-ACLU, describe the attempts at voter suppression in both Kansas and Missouri. Under Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, Kansas voter ID requirements …